The midnight hours were her time to be selfish and vain - Truman Capote

She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore.

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part [...]? The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal.